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Oh Arceus, this movie was bad. This has mostly to do with Arceus as a character itself. First off, the voice... the voice!! It's so... bad. I'd rather have him not have a voice at all. Then the writing of its dialogue, with repeating the same line like three times over in the movie, it using "take this" and "alright". Really, come on? We're dealing with a supposedly godlike creature here.
Secondly, the legends say it is supposed to have created the world and the dimensions of time, space and reverse. Yet it has to offer a part of its very own life force to recover a patch of land. Urgh... how's that work?
Third, the supposedly godlike creature, with enough intelligence to use human speech, yet is so blinded by rage that it feels the need to destroy life on the entire planet for the betrayal by one man. No... just no.
Fourth, lol at GOD having its memory re-written at the end of the movie. Lol.

More lol for everyone in the past calling Pokémon 'magical creatures'. I mean, Pokémon are a normal thing in that world, why aren't they just called animals or something. Although this could maybe be an issue with the translating, I don't know what the original Japanese script uses.

That scene in the beginning when Pikachu and Piplup almost get sucked into another dimension and then get saved by Dialga. Ash going "cool" instead of freaking out over the entire lake turning into a water tornado and the sky transforming into a black hole, with the rest of his friends just smiling beside him. Yeah, totally natural reaction there. Also funny how they don't even bother trying to run from the 2nd time it happens, minutes after the first time. They just stand there.

The only thing I liked about this movie was the evil guy with the red hair (did he even have a name?)

Seeing this thread, with nothing better to do, I've sat myself down to watch the movie.
I'm 26 minutes in, where the ruin guardians explain the universes, and I swear to Arceus - if Ash and c/o repeat any more words back to them, I'm going to flipping tear my hair out! I don't remember the Pokémon movies being this horribly contrived. Give me back Spell of the Unown!

One of the biggest weaknesses of this movie is the title character itself. First off, why is Arceus harmed by Pikachu? I know the plates that resisted electricity were gone, but I think the anime has shown alternatives to blocking lightning. Can't it just use the mind plate and telekinetically hold back the lightning? I think an abra already did that. He's a creator deity. Why didn't he just telekinetically kill all the humans?

Point two, did common sense go out the window in the whole prison scene? The guards didn't take their bags, and Ash and co. had their Pokemon, but didn't bother use them to blow the doors sky high? Can't you make Damos explain while on the way to stopping Marcus? It would shorten the movie.

Point three, time doesn't work that way. Ash and co. should have been fading in the past whether Arceus died or not. Since the jewel was returned in the past, the gang should not have been there. When they returned to the future, Arceus is still on its rampage. You cannot say that the events changed in the past still led to the rampage. Time doesn't work that way. If anything, the last two movies would have been retconned out of continuity because the past was so radically altered. Don't tell me that the pokemon world has different time rules. What time travel rules were in that one episode in AG still apply everywhere else in the series.

Point four, what's the point of having Team Rocket?

Point the fifth, Sheena didn't catch Marcus basically admitting to being evil? He asked her if silver water was used. Why did you not catch that?

Point six, the voice acting of Arceus.

Point seven, mind control? Really?

Last edited by U.N. Owen; 19th December 2015 at 11:19 PM.

"Everyone creates the thing they dread. Men of peace create engines of war. Invaders create Avengers. People create... smaller people? Er... children! I lost the word there. Children. Designed to supplant them. To help them end."

"Momentai!"

"Resistance. Rebellion. You will burn these ideas away."

But this is the traditional royal Canterlot voice! It is tradition to speak, using the Royal "we", and to use THIS MUCH VOLUME WHEN ADDRESSING OUR SUBJECTS!!

I liked how this film's setting was inspired by Greece and Damos was a cool and memorable film protagonist. Dialga, Palkia and Giratina clashing was cool as well, plus I liked how Ash went back in time thanks to Dialga.

I actually quite enjoyed the movie but what killed it for me was the fact that you needed a jewel or plates to keep a god alive. I feel like Arceus should be immortal in the anime if not I think the plot should've been better. I think it would've been so much better if this movie was set up like Pokémon 4ever where Arceus is captured, becomes evil and the gang turns Arceus back to normal. That would've been awesome to see. Though it was still kind of epic with Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina. Though I felt Arceus had a better presence in Hoopa and the Clash of Ages albeit a minor one.

I enjoyed every Pokémon movie but there are a couple movies that have certain problems that make me enjoy them less than other Pokémon movies. Arceus and the Jewel of Life was one of them.

I liked the movie, but I guess I was expecting Arceus to sound more Godlike. I think the time travel plot and the villain were halfway boring. The action was great and all the attacks looked strong and beautiful thankfully. Also, Brock got like a minute of being awesome when he saved Sheena and Damos, without them everything would have been ruined. The animation of course was fantastic and TR was kind of just there.

When I went through all of these movies, I started with this one. Just 'cause. Didn't have much to say about it:

Why does the movie about God feel so much less majestic than one about magic birds and glowing glass balls? Why does God feel less impressive and more mundane than those birds, the pink kangaroo-cat and her clone, or Anubis Ninja? How does no one suspect the guy with red spiky hair as being bad news? Why does God sound like your blue-collar uncle with a bad cigarette habit, even when he’s not angry? Why does fixing the past come with a time delay when you return to the future? And why in a new generation would they introduce a Pokemon that’s an earlier stage in an evolutionary line when that makes no sense, because how could no one from Kanto ever have seen a Pichu before Gen II was announced, and why is Ash’s Pikachu so stubborn about evolving into a Raichu when he already evolved once, and I know I’m way off topic at this point but this bugged me so much as a kid and it was the first breaking point that drove me to bail before Johto!!!

But...yeah. Out of all the Sinnoh trilogy, this one felt the least padded, and helped clear up some of the murky plot mess of the earlier entries. The CotDs are serviceable if a little on the dull side. And this final chapter of the trilogy does aim the highest in its scope and scale, even if it doesn’t reach its goals. But Arceus’s terrible voice in the dub, and his rush to apocalyptic judgement, really hurt the character. And the main cast is worse off here than in the other entries, as Dawn ends up as sidelined as Brock in the finale.

I was glad to see the Shinou saga's movie trilogy come to an end here, because I didn't enjoy it much overall. Arceus seemed less than stellar and almost as vacuous as most Legendary Pokemon, which was a slight disappointment considering its hype. I was amazed by how useful Sheena was to the plot however, and Dialga managed to have the most relevance compared to Palkia and Giratina.

Dialga was amazing though and I liked the Spiky-ear Pichu even though it was mostly a cheap HGSS tie-in.

Strangely enough, I didn't feel that the Gizamimi Pichu was shoved in our faces that much in this movie. I had feared that it would be shown too much as a way of promoting HG/SS, but it didn't end up becoming a nuisance after all, which was refreshing.